Pretre's Adoption Blog

Finally after 4 months, Google has fixed the blogrolls so that they can be updated again. I will be attending to them gradually. Sorry if ...

I still cannot update my blogrolls since mid-January. Sorry that they are getting behind. A couple of hundred people have complained on th...

Here is a Canadian singer named Chantal Kreviazuk . Her father and grandfather are from Ukraine. Here's a couple of her songs. He...

Last summer I came across a Russian singer named Inna Zhelannaya (Инна Желанная) on YouTube and immediately fell in love with her music. Sh...

See if you can find any places you've visited in Kyiv Ukraine during your adoption(s) in this cool time lapse video. Киев'2011(Kie...

I was saddened to read of the passing of 8 y.o. Brandon Kerr, adopted from Ukraine last May. He was injured in a bike accident and died yes...

Sorry I haven't been updating the blogrolls lately... For about a week or so Blogger hasn't been letting me save changes to the blog...

Meet Anna. "Every little girl loves a pretty new dress, and my daughter Anna was no exception. Trembling with emotion, she ripped ope...

OK so I'm a little late to this party, but I saw on someone else's blog that they had recently watched the Russian movie called, ...

Here's a music video filmed in Odessa by the Ukrainian singer Margarita Yanchuk. If you've spent time in Odessa you may recognize ...

Over the years I have read a lot of helpful Ukraine adoption blogs. Of course, you already know about the 573+ blogs of completed adoptions...

Today is Thanksgiving Day in America, a day that our country sets aside to be thankful for the many blessings we have received. It's an...

I haven't been tending to the blog for a long time. Those of you who are Facebook friends of ours know that since April we have been go...

Recently, quite by accident I websurfed into a blog of a Canadian family running a dairy farm in Ukraine. Though Nancy and I aren't far...

When we were in Odessa, we sporadically attended a church that was attended by several young people that were either in Christian ministry, ...

Back when I was in college, forever ago, I served as a co-chair for our MDA dance-a-thon. It was very rewarding to help raise money to loo...

I was listening to the radio in my car the other day and this little devotional came on by Ron Hutchcraft . As a parent of 3 teenagers, I f...

Recently, I completed a long awaited reorganizing of blog links that are not adopting families. I created several new sections way down on ...

This is a post about a Russian and Ukrainian celebrity named Yozhik, or Little Hedgehog. Ёжик в тумане - Little Hedgehog in the Fog - is a s...

The video in my previous post ended with "Here am I". "Here am I." "Here am I." But where am I ? Being the ha...